The Help
By Kathryn Stockett
444 pages
"Tomorrow night. I'll...come back with a better way. Let's just keep trying." Miss Skeeter said bravely.
In the novel The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, a group of women speak out about what it is like to be a black woman working for a white family in Mississippi, during the early 1960's. A "white lady" with the name of Miss Skeeter, starts out wanting to write a book and persuades her friends maid to be interviewed first. They continue on interviewing, in secret, other maids until the book is slowly but surely pieced together. Throughout these events the characters have to deal with a broken romance, the ups and downs of jobs, miscommunication of friends and the fight to get this book into print. The characters showed true bravery and courage to make this book happen even though they knew that their safety was at high risk. You'll just have to read this amazing book to see if all their hard work paid off.
